Metric details for natural-language spatial relations
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Computing Geographical Scopes of Web Resources
VLDB '00 Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Categorizing web queries according to geographical locality
CIKM '03 Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Detecting dominant locations from search queries
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Geographic web search based on positioning expressions
Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Geographic information retrieval
InfoScale '06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Scalable information systems
Ontology-Based spatial query expansion in information retrieval
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, COA, and ODBASE - Volume Part II
A differential notion of place for local search
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web
Ranking Refinement via Relevance Feedback in Geographic Information Retrieval
MICAI '09 Proceedings of the 8th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Representing Context Information for Document Retrieval
FQAS '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
NLPIR4DL '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Text and Citation Analysis for Scholarly Digital Libraries
A large-scale study on map search logs
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
A ranking approach based on example texts for geographic information retrieval
CLEF'08 Proceedings of the 9th Cross-language evaluation forum conference on Evaluating systems for multilingual and multimodal information access
Concept based representations for ranking in geographic information retrieval
IceTAL'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advances in natural language processing
What aspects do people search in geo-referenced text?
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Location and the Web
Spatial grounding with vague place models
SIGSPATIAL Special
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A Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) system for answering geographic queries has to cope with various information needs, which have a wide range of contexts and implicit requirements. A user, for example, who is looking for a place to spend his or her holidays certainly has a different understanding of distance than a user looking for a bar in the city he or she lives in. To get a better understanding of geographic information needs and their implications for GIR systems, we analysed real world (geographic) queries with regard to different facets of geographic references in queries. The results of this analysis are presented in this paper, the aim of which was a classification of the geographic aspects of information needs. We present empirical results and line out possible classification criteria, which could be helpful in designing GIR systems that are able to consider different semantics of geographic references in queries.